Jurrian Hering Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 As the title says what is your favorite live food to feed and why? I just ordered some micro worms and vinegar eels and am super excited to try those out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Vercetti Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Baby brine shrimp because the tank stays clean and it is hard to overfeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theplatymaster Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 im a fan of BBS because that's the one live food ive tried. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 BBS is the only one i mess with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameisnobody Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 BBS and it’s not even close for my collection. My larger fish aren’t as interested, but anything 3” and smaller love BBS. My bigger guys seem interested for a second or 2 and then they loose interest. When I say bigger fish, I mean Geophagus. If I could figure out a way to blanket the substrate with BBS, the geo’s would more likely go insane. Trouble is, the BBS never has a chance to hit the floor before being munched up by other smaller inhabitants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Whiteworms, hands down for everything ember tetra size and up to adult Jack Dempsey size go absolutely crazy for them. Grindal worms down to chili rasbora size and up to at least adult cory size or a bit more. I don’t happen to have a lot of “between” adult fish. I have plenty of nanofish and a few species of much larger fish, not many between other than juvies, only various cories and some plecos). Next blackworms (for roughly same size fish as whiteworms) and Daphnia for anything that will go for Grindal worms plus a bit bigger, then microworms and vinegar eels for about ember tetra size and smaller to quite small fry (smaller than can eat BBS). 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Agree with @Odd Duck on white worms being number one and grindal worms for those kids just not big enough for white worms. These are my top two because fish LOVE worms and they are very easy low effort cultures. They also feed almost all my fish. I don’t have really large fish. Anything to small for these or fry I go for live BBS. On 3/1/2023 at 12:06 AM, mynameisnobody said: If I could figure out a way to blanket the substrate with BBS, the geo’s would more likely go insane. Put them in the refrigerator. They slow way down or die and do sort of blanket the floor. I do this for my corydora. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameisnobody Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 @Guppysnail the others will get to it, it has no chance seeing substrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 3/1/2023 at 1:42 PM, mynameisnobody said: @Guppysnail the others will get to it, it has no chance seeing substrate. I feed the other fish bbs first then I use a long coral feeder to dispense directly on the substrate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameisnobody Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 @Guppysnail brilliant! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Sera O nip tabs first, bbs second. Idk what is that all about sera o nip tabs, but every fish, snail, and inverts I have kept so far go nuts whenever I drop it into the tank. Giving me a better feeding frenzy than bbs personally. I see it as a weekly treat of my fish tanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavdad45 Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Baby Brine shrimp, all fish love them regarless of size and the baby fish grow quicker and more survive from predators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 On 3/1/2023 at 1:22 PM, Lennie said: Sera O nip tabs first, bbs second. Idk what is that all about sera o nip tabs, but every fish, snail, and inverts I have kept so far go nuts whenever I drop it into the tank. Giving me a better feeding frenzy than bbs personally. I see it as a weekly treat of my fish tanks. They do smell delicious! Very sweet smell. 😆 My fish aren’t nearly that excited about them. Maybe I just haven’t fed them often enough? But they sure go after live foods! Or maybe it’s the species I have - lots of tiny predators. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 On 3/2/2023 at 11:25 PM, Odd Duck said: They do smell delicious! Very sweet smell. 😆 My fish aren’t nearly that excited about them. Maybe I just haven’t fed them often enough? But they sure go after live foods! Or maybe it’s the species I have - lots of tiny predators. Interesting. I've even seen even otos going crazy for the tabs! Well no predators here. Except rummy noses predating amazon frogbit roots. 😄 My fish go crazy over it! The surely enjoy bbs, tubifex and bloodworms too 😄 I am having hard time to supply bbs lately. And my lfs has frozen food that are out of date. I fed them, they feed them to their own fish as well. No side effects as they are frozen and never thawed but I can't be sure and scared to cause any potential harm. They are not getting new frozen food sadly :') 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) I think the answer is 'it depends'. I feed paramecium, vinegar eels, bbs and black worms. All are great options, but it depends on the size of the fish your feeding. BBS might be too large for new born tetras. Half-grown cichlids will most likely ignore paramecium. Etc., etc. My favorite is whatever is easy to culture and doesn't smell like death or get moldy. Edited March 3, 2023 by tolstoy21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston John Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 My favorites are Paramecium, Moina, BBS, And Daphnia magna. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy's Fish Den Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 I would feed a lot of blackworms when they were easier to get, my discus and corydoras loved them. Now, the only live foods that I feed are BBS, and microworms. I do want to start a grindal worm culture to feed my angels, corys, and discus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Chicken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schuyler Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 I think my favorite is mosquito larvae They're free and it's like getting a little revenge for all those camping trips... More practically, I like daphnia and grindal worms. Daphnia are fairly simple to culture and I don't have to worry much about over feeding because they'll just live in the tank for a bit. Grindal worms are good too because they're fairly easy to keep going and put out large amounts of food. I would look into doing your vinegar eels the same way you would do micro worms. If you Google "high density vinegar eel culture" you should be able to find how it's done. It's so much easier to collect them for feeding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 (edited) On 7/25/2023 at 10:00 PM, Schuyler said: I would look into doing your vinegar eels the same way you would do micro worms. If you Google "high density vinegar eel culture" you should be able to find how it's done. It's so much easier to collect them for feeding Man I keep failing at this method! I have no problem culturing them in bottles of vinegar, but the bottles sure do take up a lot of space. Oh, paramecium are easy to culture and are waaaaaaaay less smelly than infusoria cultures. Edited July 27, 2023 by tolstoy21 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 5:08 PM, tolstoy21 said: Chicken you feeding alligator gar, or catfish????🙈 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/27/2023 at 6:46 PM, lefty o said: you feeding alligator gar, or catfish????🙈 Mako sharks. I'm growing out a couple dozen of them in a ten gallon right now. It's an impressive sight! However, the feathers kind of block up an HOB's intake, as well as gunk up a course sponge filter really fast. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 On 7/27/2023 at 6:34 PM, tolstoy21 said: Mako sharks. I'm growing out a couple dozen of them in a ten gallon right now. It's an impressive sight! However, the feathers kind of block up an HOB's intake, as well as gunk up a course sponge filter really fast. got to pluck them first! 😜 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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